“Do you think this to be just? You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
Elihu continued and said:
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
He said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?